Annuity Value and the Lottery
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The $40 million lottery payment that you just won actually pays $2 million per year for 20 years. If the discount rate is 8 percent, and the first payment comes in 1 year:
a) What is the present value of the winnings?
b) What is the first payment comes immediately?
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Annuity Value and the Lottery are computed.
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The present value P of periodic payment K per year at the rate of i for n years is given by:
P = K [ (1+i)^n - 1 ] / [ i*(1+i)^n ] ...
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